you mean TANKA, I take it. this poem says little or nothing without
this background.
the background, though, is intriguing.
KS
On 12/06/07, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> TONKA of the GALLOWS
>
> via Karel Anton
>
>
> Tu reviendras . . .
> On la cherche . . .
> Now I
> know why I have come.
> [A Czech Scarlet Letter].
>
>
> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 6-12-07 (1:37 PM)
>
>
> The only copy of this film with English subtitles
> was originally destined for the French-speaking market
> and therefore my first viewing of the first Czech
> talkie (1930) allowed me to work with what I
> was hearing as well as reading. An unusual narrative
> "lured" me in: a country girl becomes a popular
> Prague hooker but after volunteering to join a man
> condemned to the gallows for his last night in prison,
> she's stigmatized upon her return to the bordello.
> After being fired, she declines, reunites with her country
> fiancé, but when he learns of her "transforming encounter",
> a series of events leads inevitably to her accidental broken
> neck.
>
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